NCLB-Education

GenuineRisk · #1 02-07-2007, 02:14 PM

Editorial on rights from the Fort Wayne... Telegraph? Gazette? Journal? Mostly on second-hand smoke and laws, but some more general thoughts as well:

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journal...l/16566691.htm

Doesn't have anything to do with NCLB, however.

GenuineRisk · #2 02-07-2007, 02:22 PM

And the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, from 1948.

http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

GenuineRisk · #3 02-07-2007, 02:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bababooyee

I made it about half-way through that douchebaggery...what an idiot (or bunch of idiots).

BUT to be fair, I haven't been as discerning as I should be in defining "rights". My fault for lack of clarity...and the mess it has caused! Maybe we can narrow this all down for time's sake.

I actually didn't have much of an opinion about the editorial. What got you so steaming mad about it?

randallscott35 · #4 02-07-2007, 03:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bababooyee

I made it about half-way through that douchebaggery...what an idiot (or bunch of idiots).

BUT to be fair, I haven't been as discerning as I should be in defining "rights". My fault for lack of clarity...and the mess it has caused! Maybe we can narrow this all down for time's sake.

Surely a new SAT word has been born.

Downthestretch55 · #5 02-07-2007, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by randallscott35

Surely a new SAT word has been born.

Not just a new SAT word....clearly in violation of the "code of conduct".
Mods???

SentToStud · #6 02-07-2007, 04:47 PM

To whoever wrote this (before deleting?!?) or believes it:

"As a renter, I pay no property (read, school) taxes, and frankly, I should. I benefit from an educated populace, too...."

Huh?

Sorry, just because you pay no property tax doesn't mean your own tax dollars do not go toward education. Hardly. In every state I've lived in, state funding EXCEEDS local funding of public schools.

To further inform you, state school funding is provided through legislative act. I assure you that each of those laws includes language that "GUARANTEES each child an educational opportunity..."

To me, that language confers a right, not a privilege.

The purpose of state funding (which you pay for) is, in part, to "equalize" educational opportunies for students regardless of the local property tax revenues generated for each individual district.

Local property taxes do not fully fund public schools. Not even close.